Obama for America is morphing into a nonprofit advocacy group

posted at 1:11 pm on January 18, 2013 by Erika Johnsen

We all knew that the campaign machinery Team Obama has built up over the past few years was going to continue to work to push President Obama’s agenda, but in what capacity they’d be doing so wasn’t one hundred percent clear.

They can’t technically be a campaign anymore, and in the post-election lull, they moved into the DNC and renamed themselves Organizing for America, while certain Democrats have been laying on the pressure for the group to share the resource-wealth with Democratic candidates. Their further options included transforming those resources into a super PAC or a tax-exempt nonprofit, and it looks like they’ve decided upon the latter course of action:

The former Obama campaign will become a non-profit that will advocate for the president’s policies, the first such transition for a major political organization, according to a senior Democratic official.

Obama for America campaign manager Jim Messina will become chairman of the new group, and White House aide Jon Carson will join as executive director. The group will disclose its donors.

The new group will be called Organizing for Action and accept donations form individuals and corporations but not from lobbyists or PACs, the AP reported.

And it looks and sounds exactly what you’d expect it to look and sound like:

“…We should all be proud of what we accomplished, but let’s be clear: All that hard work was about more than just one election. So, if we want to finish what we started, and truly make that change we believe in, we can’t stop now. And that’s why today, I’m proud that our friend and supporters are launching Organizing for Action, the next phase of our movement for change. Supporters like you will be the heart of this organization, because, for the past six years, you’ve done something so much bigger than elect a president. You’ve given ordinary people a place in our democratic process again. …Winning an election won’t bring about the change we seek; it’s simply the chance to make that change.”

Again, I’m skeptical that they can garner quite the same kind of sustained enthusiasm for the everyday humdrum of politics that they managed for President Obama’s reelection, but I won’t be putting anything past them, either. It could turn out to be a formidable political weapon, and the precise type of communication machine that the GOP is sorely lacking:

The whole wide world is living in an age of always-on messaging, and the Republican Party is living in the age of Morse code. It isn’t that no one is listening to the GOP. There is nothing to hear.

Smarting from defeat by Barack Obama’s made-in-Silicon-Valley messaging network, congressional Republicans in Washington are getting tutorials to bring them into a Twitterized world. I have a simpler idea: First join the 20th-century communication revolution by creating an office of chief party spokesman. One for the House and one for the Senate.

It isn’t that no one is listening to the GOP. There is nothing to hear.

It’s both.

Anything the GOP says (if they actually say anything worth hearing, which isn’t much these days) is quickly drowned out by the screeching denizens of stupid in both the mainstream press and in political pusher organizations where people make full-time liberal politics their job. And consequently, that’s all you hear.

The rest of us are too busy trying to make a living to be able to do anything about it, so they win the message-pushing war by default.

the rants about michelle-o’s looks are understandable considering all the 250-lb mary beths with cracked heels of Real America. as ginsberg wrote, you can’t eat shit without having visions.

sesquipedalian on January 18, 2013 at 1:48 PM

Just admit it, that is one ugly woman. She always looks mean and unhappy. As for the rest of your almost incoherent rant, I think you could extrapolate from the national evidence, conservative women are MUCH better looking than democrat women. That is a settled fact. I have always been considered pretty, and I feel certain I am much prettier than you.

As for the rest of your almost incoherent rant, I think you could extrapolate from the national evidence, conservative women are MUCH better looking than democrat women. That is a settled fact. I have always been considered pretty, and I feel certain I am much prettier than you.

Night Owl on January 18, 2013 at 1:58 PM

you’re mistaking the fact that part of the great conservative media scam is that outlets, including salem, purposely hire platinum-blonde beauty contestants for eye candy, with the reality that 98% of attractive female public figures in the US are liberal.

Romney won a majority of congressional districts in 2012 and pressuring Congress means pressuring Congressional disctricts… Having the support of 99% of Cleveland residents has zero impact on the other congressional districts in Ohio and the country… It is much tougher than they think…

There are too many “non-profits” that are tax loopholes for selfish people who just want their way, and want to collect money without paying taxes on it, and pay others top dollar without having to worry about where the money comes from. I think a lot of people should look at turning their business into a non-profit. A lot of people do a lot of good in their work, and they are taxed like they are naughty children. Habitat for Humanity is a non profit, why are not the other people that build homes allowed to be non profit? People need homes, they need food, farms should all be non profit; You can still pay yourself a really nice salary. You can still pay your friends, I mean your employees a pretty sum for their work. We really need heating oil…did you know Citizen’s Energy is a non-profit and pays a Kennedy a lot to act like he Cares…but they sell heating oil, by roundabout means…as a non profit. Take a look, I am confused.http://www.citizensenergy.com/main/Home.html

I wasn’t talking about news readers, I was talking about conservative women in Congress and throughout the nation. But the conservative media woman are clearly better looking than democrats and the used used up hacks in the liberal media, with state of their dried up, miserable souls written all over their faces.

So? Much of a shock as it might be, I don’t find Mila Kunis all that attractive. She’s no dog but definitely not more than average looking with a really ugly inside. Sorta like Mooch without the giant chip on her shoulder.

look, i never disputed that the gop wins the battle of blonde one-time beauty queens with single-digit IQs.

sesquipedalian on January 18, 2013 at 2:35 PM

LOL! We were talking looks, but it’s also a well established fact, and clearly the vast majority agrees, but woman conservatives are also much more intelligent than those ugly liberals as well. Whether on TV, in Congress, or here in fly-over country, it’s true and it would be better for your psyche if you just focus on those things you ARE good at, like capitalization and stuff. Oh, wait!

i struggle to understand why the dubious honor of having recruited more beauty pageant contestants than your opponents is so cherished by conservatives. it seems like a pitiful defensive reflex in response to everyone hating your guts.

i struggle to understand why the dubious honor of having recruited more beauty pageant contestants than your opponents is so cherished by conservatives. it seems like a pitiful defensive reflex in response to everyone hating your guts.

sesquipedalian on January 18, 2013 at 3:01 PM

You aren’t getting it. Conservative women are so good looking because their hearts are pure, so it shows on the outside. You liberal women are ugly for the same reason. The love of death, especially of babies, the general nihilism, the hatred and envy you carry inside you all show in your faces. So because you have so little to work with, I will allow your entry back in.

canopfor posted this link last night and it has a lot more info
on this. Breitbart has an article which contains this:
President Obama’s network across this country, grassroots individuals, who organize, volunteered with their time to get the president reelected are much more powerful than the NRA lobby.

They act like the NRA is an organization unto itself. Americans make up the NRA. So when they say they are going after the NRA, they mean Americans. I think if they would speak the truth, their tongues would fall out!!

i struggle to understand why the dubious honor of having recruited more beauty pageant contestants than your opponents is so cherished by conservatives. it seems like a pitiful defensive reflex in response to everyone hating your guts.

sesquipedalian on January 18, 2013 at 3:01 PM

Michelle would say “I schtruggle”.

sesqui wrote this with a straight face? How many articles are out ther about the Obama’s looks…and ‘brains’?

You aren’t getting it. Conservative women are so good looking because their hearts are pure, so it shows on the outside. You liberal women are ugly for the same reason. The love of death, especially of babies, the general nihilism, the hatred and envy you carry inside you all show in your faces. So because you have so little to work with, I will allow your entry back in.

Night Owl on January 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM

You got that right. liberal women (including our resident trollturd…squidforbrains) shine ugly from the inside out. $2000 jackets, $800 purses and $600 sneakers can’t mask over the ugliness that oozes from their every pore.

LOL! I thought, why are you putting something in here I should actually pay attention to! I found a very sensitive spot in sesquahana or whatever, so I’ve been poking it just for fun.

They act like the NRA is an organization unto itself. Americans make up the NRA. So when they say they are going after the NRA, they mean Americans. I think if they would speak the truth, their tongues would fall out!!

bluefox on January 18, 2013 at 3:16 PM

There are other groups mainly made up of people like us, so you would have to combine them all to make a fair comparison. I don’t belong to the NRA, but I might show up somewhere tomorrow to support them. Of course they mean Americans, else what would be the point of demonizing them (us)? It will be interesting to see if they can get their “base” out on a regular basis. It might start looking too much like a job and scare them off.

i was going to write something funny in response, but… wow, take a bow, son. no way i can trump that.

sesquipedalian on January 18, 2013 at 3:30 PM

Good thing you didn’t try the humor route. It has been clearly established, and a vast majority of the American people agree with me, that conservative women are also endowed with way more wit and humor than liberal women, what with the nihilism and all. That schtick just isn’t that funny.

It has been clearly established, and a vast majority of the American people agree with me, that conservative women are also endowed with way more wit and humor than liberal women, what with the nihilism and all.

Night Owl on January 18, 2013 at 3:34 PM

and with that, you have finally slipped the surly bonds of reality and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings.